Features

Linux driver - OpenSource

This adapter is supported by recent versions of the radeon driver as found in X.Org.

With recent kernels (2.6.32+) and radeon driver (6.13+) Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) is supported. But note that for working suspend/resume support it is needed to force AGP 1X mode by passing radeon.agpmode=1 at boot time. This can effect performance in some cases, particular FPS games that use large textures (Quake, World of Padman, etc).

OpenGL screen corruption

You may experience screen corruption with Compiz, a workaround for this is to create a file /etc/drirc with the following content

Linux driver - Proprietary

The last version of fglrx to support this chipset is 8.28.8 (released 2006-08-18), later versions do not support this chipset anymore. This version is still available for download, but does not support kernels newer then 2.6.17.
This proprietary driver has 3D acceleration support, but you might find that current opensource radeon driver does just as well.

Some people have gotten it to work (Fturner) with later kernel versions as follows;

edit /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.h and add at the top

#define VM_SHM 0xff

The meaning of 0xff is unknown, but 0xffffffff certainly does not work.

and edit /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/make.sh to comment out the kernel version checking, in order for the module to build.